It was when I went to Sunday school. I've long since recovered from religion, but have to wonder what the hell Bible people have been reading in the past couple of decades. Did they take out all of the stuff about loving your neighbor, blessed be the poor, and healing the sick?

"It was very upsetting because the rectors liked it, but when it got to the administration, people thought it might be too controversial or vague," he says. He was told "it was not an appropriate image."

Well, it does run the risk of inadvertently teaching someone the values of humility, kindness, compassion and/or generosity.

Schmalz, 43, roots the sculpture in his experiences in Toronto, where he trained at the former Ontario College of Art. "I was totally used to stepping over people. You're not aware they are human beings. They become obstacles in the urban environment and you lose a spiritual connection to them. They become inert, an inconvenience."

Just because you callously stepped over the homeless doesn't mean the rest of us did. Your sculpture's statement is not "look everyone, there are homeless people," it's "oh wow, I just now noticed there are homeless people around."

buzzcut73:Tigger: Wasn't being a poor outcast the whole point of Jesus?

It was when I went to Sunday school. I've long since recovered from religion, but have to wonder what the hell Bible people have been reading in the past couple of decades. Did they take out all of the stuff about loving your neighbor, blessed be the poor, and healing the sick?

pretty much. Now it's all abortion is murder, hate the gays, and look down on the poors.

Matthew 8:19-2019And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.20And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

cptjeff:super_grass: Thank Allah the artist didn't choose a 'realistic' depiction of Muhammad (PBUH), otherwise the artist would be a smoking stain on the sidewalk.

Do you bigots have to infiltrate EVERY topic? Don't you have a klan rally to be at?

Besides, the Prophet Muhammed was sharp dressed guy. And he had cats. You'd have this guy in nice silk robes with really nice armchair, a cup of coffee, and a cat. But he would be invisible. But you could draw the robes and hat in.

34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'40"The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'

buzzcut73:Tigger: Wasn't being a poor outcast the whole point of Jesus?

It was when I went to Sunday school. I've long since recovered from religion, but have to wonder what the hell Bible people have been reading in the past couple of decades. Did they take out all of the stuff about loving your neighbor, blessed be the poor, and healing the sick?

Yes. Generally, the aim is to cut all instances of liberal bias in the Bible.

Not all embrace this interpretation, as Bryan Stallings and his wife Amy discovered. They run a mission in Branson, Mo., called Jesus Was Homeless.... They've been criticized for the mission's name."People who have issue with it are usually the staunch religious people," says Stallings, "especially those who follow prosperity teaching and doctrine that says if you are homeless or poor you don't have enough faith."

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Shadi:'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'

This is one of those times it's a pity I can only click the 'smart' button one time.

Jesus may not have been poor, but he definitely had a quality far worse in the eyes of many, he always sided with the poor, sick and otherwise needy and saw them as equally moral to those who weren't poor, and never put blame upon the needy for their condition. And he didn't exactly like what many of those with money were doing or how they made money.

I thought ben franklin was white. But seems he is some type of copper color. Well back to study up in the whitewash history book I guess.

There's a bible belt, predominately white and very ethnocentric city in Michigan that has this same statue. I thought they were trying to make him look gangsta but now I understand it -- the Declaration of Independence doesn't belong to non-white statues. Now it look likes he's dropping rhymes.

And the sculptor is just GIVING it away? Oh no? Yeah that price tag might have more to do with why it was rejected than the content of it. And a sculptor that is surprised that the first two people he tried to sell a sculpture to refused to buy? Welcome to the art industry, now you'll just have to try selling it to a thousand more people before you'll find a sucker I mean client.

Now the sculpture stands near Wellesley St. W., outside Regis College at the University of Toronto. It's a Jesuit school of theology, where priests and lay people are trained, with an emphasis on social justice.

As an atheist/recovering Catholic I gotta say the Jesuits have always impressed me as being one religious outfit that "gets" the teachings of Jesus better than many of the others.

I thought ben franklin was white. But seems he is some type of copper color. Well back to study up in the whitewash history book I guess.

There's a bible belt, predominately white and very ethnocentric city in Michigan that has this same statue. I thought they were trying to make him look gangsta but now I understand it -- the Declaration of Independence doesn't belong to non-white statues. Now it look likes he's dropping rhymes.

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And the glasses, the coat, the vest, the cane, the shoes? Totally pimpin'. His hair is all rock star.

'I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.' 37Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?' 40And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'

RaoulDeWondernewt:From the Man Himself:Jesus told him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head."

And this.

Gethsemane. It's where you go to sweat buckets of blood and anguish over the sacrifices you make due to your faith.